A hose safety breakaway coupling
designed to avert the danger
of broken hoses and reduce
the risk of pollution, will be
shown for the first time in the
United States at the Offshore
Technology Conference in Houston,
Texas, May 5-8, 1980. The
hose

Complete Abrasive Blasting
Systems, Inc. (CAB) of Kent,
Wash., recently announced that
the first portable manual air blast
application of a skid-mounted
steel grit recovery system f or
field use has been delivered and
is in service successfully.

Globic: Designed as a highly efficient, TBT-free, self-polishing and self-smoothening antifouling
with very high volume solids, which can be specified for up to 60 months. Globic is available in
four different polishing rates ensuring optimum specification.

The Maritime Administration
has approved in principle the application
by Global Marine Deepwater
Drilling, Inc., Los Angeles,
for a Title XI guarantee to aid
in financing the construction of
three jackup drilling rigs.
Global Marine has not yet

Within a recent one-week period, General
Dynamics Corporation accepted two conditional
orders f o r six liquefied natural gas
(LNG) carriers at a total cost of more than
$1 billion. Three of the ships were ordered
by Zapata Western LNG Inc., a subsidiary
of Zapata Corporation of Houston.

Poul C. Nyholm has been named
an executive vice president of
Gotaas-Larsen Shipping Corporation,
a subsidiary of IU International,
1500 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pa. 19102. The announcement
was made by Kenneth
A.B. Trippe, Gotaas-Larsen's
president.

A contract was recently signed
between the Federal Republic of
Germany and Bremer Vulkan Aktiengesellschaft
for the construction
of two type F 122 Bremen Class frigates.
These two additional frigates
will be identical to the six delivered
during 1982-84.